Peter Shaffer: Theatre and Drama

Peter Shaffer: Theatre and Drama
Author: Madeleine MacMurraugh-Kavanagh
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 222
Release: 1998-03-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230372953

Peter Shaffer: Theatre and Drama is an accessible, informed survey of Peter Shaffer's work to date. Covering much ground, the book brings a fresh and original approach to this playwright's drama, incorporating discussion of every play in his canon. Suitable for readers ranging from 'A' level to undergraduate and postgraduate levels, this book introduces a variety of debates and interpretations to students, incorporating material that has not been published before. An engaging and authoritative contribution to the field.

Shrivings

Shrivings
Author: Peter Shaffer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 114
Release: 1974
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

English pacifist, his devoted American secretary, and young guest, the son of the pacifist's former poet-student await the latter's visit. The poet manages to destroy belief in man's improvability of the entire household by his nihilistic, violent nature.

Lettice and Lovage

Lettice and Lovage
Author: Peter Shaffer
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1990
Genre: Tour guides (Persons)
ISBN: 9780573692598

Lettice Duffet, an expert on Elizabethan cuisine and medieval weaponry, is an indefatigable but daffy enthusiast of history and the theatre. As a tour guide at Fustian House, one of the least stately of London's stately homes, she theatrically embellishes its historical past, ultimately coming up on the radar of Lotte Schon, an inspector from the Preservation Trust. Neither impressed or entertained by Lettice's freewheeling history lessons, Schon fires her. Not one however, to go without a fight, Lettice engages the stoic, conventionial Lotte in battle to the death of all that is sacred to the Empire and the crown. This hit by the author of Equus and Amadeus featured a triumphant award-winning performance by Dame Maggie Smith in London and on Broadway.

Five Finger Exercise

Five Finger Exercise
Author: Peter Shaffer
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1958
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573619298

About a house of discord, a husband who is a tactless philistine, a wife, cultured and artistic, and a son, afraid of his father and too dependent on his mother.

Peter Shaffer

Peter Shaffer
Author: C. J. Gianakaris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1992
Genre: Dramatists, English
ISBN:

The Private Ear

The Private Ear
Author: Peter Shaffer
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 54
Release: 1962
Genre: Plays, British
ISBN: 9780573624179

Equus

Equus
Author: Peter Shaffer
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1973
Genre: English drama
ISBN: 9780573608728

Equus is Peter Shaffer's exploration of the way modern society has destroyed our ability to feel passion. Alan Strang is a disturbed youth whose dangerous obsession with horses leads him to commit an unspeakable act of violence. As psychiatrist Martin Dysart struggles to understand the motivation for Alan's brutality, he is increasingly drawn into Alan's web and eventually forced to question his own sanity. Equus is a timeless classic and a cornerstone of contemporary drama that delves into the darkest recesses of human existence.

Amadeus

Amadeus
Author: Peter Shaffer
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2007
Genre: Composers
ISBN: 9780141188898

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius, the most brilliant musician the world will ever see. But the court of eighteenth-century Vienna doesn t recognize his talents - only Antonio Salieri, the Court Composer, does, and he is tortured by what he hears. Seething with rage at the genius of this flippant buffoon and suddenly aware of his own mediocrity, Salieri declares war and sets out to destroy the man he sees as God s instrument on earth. Peter Shaffer s award-winning play is a rich, exuberant portrayal of a God-like man among mortals, and lives destroyed by envy."

A Quick Guide to Screenwriting

A Quick Guide to Screenwriting
Author: Ray Morton
Publisher: Quick Guide
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780879108045

The ultimate reference manual to the art, craft, and business of writing for the movies - full of vital information, helpful tips, and keen advice that will help you make your script the best it can be.